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Streamline learning through consistent thematic organization

5 themes in each regional chapter make navigation easy for students and instructors. Themes include Physical Geography and the Environment, Population and Settlement, Cultural Coherence and Diversity, Geopolitical Framework, and Economic and Social Development.
A superior, pedagogically-oriented cartography program features standardized maps for all regional chapters. Regional chapters contain approximately 12 maps, with almost all regional chapters containing maps on the same themes to enable cross-regional comparisons. Most regional chapters contain the following maps:

A chapter-opening political/physical map, showing political boundaries, landforms, hydrology, and tectonic boundaries.
A climate map, with climographs displaying temperature and precipitation data for specific cities.
An environmental issues map with callouts to environmental problems and solutions within the region.
A population map for the region leveraging the latest world population data.
A map of regional languages.
A map of religions.
A geopolitical map of current issues and tensions.

This system allows students to compare and contrast concepts and data both within and between regions, and reinforces the book's emphasis on the global effect on local issues.

Amplify global perspectives through the latest content

Chapters highlight sustainability initiatives to show the diverse global applications of this crucial interdisciplinary concept. Working Toward Sustainability features detail positive environmental and social efforts and outcomes. All features are integrated with QR links to Google Earth Virtual Tour Videos.
Relatable examples of Everyday Globalization help students explore the impact of globalization on products and commodities they use in everyday life.
Exploring Global Connections features explore the often surprising connection between places and regions around the world, leveraging recent events and coverage of cultural and environmental topics. All features are integrated with QR links to Google Earth Virtual Tour Videos.
End-of-chapter Review, Reflect, & Apply sections provide a robust interactive review experience, including: concise chapter summary, Review Questions that bridge multiple chapter themes, Image Analysis questions, Join the Debate activities that encourage students to explore both sides of a complex issue affecting the region, Data Analysis activities, as well as QR links to author blogs.
A wide range of coverage includes popular topics such as food, art, music, film, sports, and gender issues, giving students a deeper perspective on culture.
UPDATED! Science and statistics ensure that the most recent demographic and geopolitical data are incorporated into the cartography.

Provide pathways for students to explore the sights, sounds, and tastes of world regions

NEW! Geographers at Work short sidebar features look at how geography is practiced in the real world, profiling active geographers working around the globe in a variety of careers using the tools and methods of geography. These features emphasize the diverse issues and places that geographers explore, emphasizing the diverse career and research opportunities of geography, and the interesting and relevant real-world problems that contemporary geography addresses.
NEW! Everyday Globalization short sidebar features explore everyday products and commodities that people commonly use and consume, tracing their global links and the implications of consumption, including tensions between global and local communities, and pose questions that ask students to reflect on their experience and interaction with these products and commodities.
NEW! 2-page Review, Reflect, & Apply sections at the end of each chapter provide a robust interactive review experience, including: concise chapter summary, Review Questions that bridge multiple chapter themes, Image Analysis questions, Join the Debate activities that encourage students to explore both sides of a complex issue affecting the region, Data Analysis activities, as well as QR links to author blogs.
Explore Sights, Sounds, and Tastes of the Region. The print book and eText is extended with mobile-ready links to online videos, web maps, audio, and reference material to enrich the student experience with the sights, sounds, and tastes of world regions.

UPDATED! Google Earth Virtual Tour videos in most sidebar features give students brief narrated explorations of the places discussed in the case studies.
UPDATED! Sights of the Region link photos and maps to dynamic online Google Maps that include community-contributed photos, empowering students to explore the places and spaces that make up world regions.
UPDATED! Sounds of the Region links give students access to audio of regional music, language, and fauna.
UPDATED! Tastes of the Region links help students explore the geography and politics of food in each region, and include links to regional recipes.

Move learning forward with an active approach

Regional-specific learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter connect directly to end-of-chapter material, review questions, and Mastering™ Geography, forming a cohesive student experience.
Review questions at the end of each thematic section help students check their comprehension as they read, emphasizing the most important points for clarity.
Sidebar questions provide students with active learning opportunities for deeper understandings of thematic case studies.
Visual Questions within each chapter section give students more opportunity to stop and practice visual analysis and critical thinking.
A focus on fundamentals in Chapter 1 helps students form strong foundational skills such as interpreting maps, map projections, and modern geospatial technology tools.
Accessible language and contemporary applications appeal to today’s students through tone, consistency, continuity, and relatable connections.
Pedagogical aids support learning and reinforce critical information and concepts:

Exploring Global Connections sidebars
People on the Move sidebars
Geographers at Work sidebars profile the real work that geographers do across world regions
Side-by-side population pyramids in each regional chapter
Development Issues graphics in the Economic and Social Development sections of each regional chapter
Global warming/climate change coverage
Key Terms and a Glossary for increased comprehension

Create a more comprehensive learning experience

UPDATED! End-of-chapter spreads feature two pages of Review, Reflect, and Apply materials that summarize the chapter’s content, outline visual and data analysis tasks, and encourage students to explore both sides of regional issues with new Join the Debate activities.
UPDATED! Print and technology integration forms a compelling story for instructors and students, supporting interactive learning approaches—both in and out of the classroom.

Also available with Mastering Geography

Mastering™ Geography is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product proven to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced coaching activities that feature personalized wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience and help keep students on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

UPDATED! Video Activities from sources such as the BBC, Financial Times, and Television for the Environment’s Life and Earth Report series are included in Mastering Geography. These videos provide students with applied real-world examples of physical geography in action, a sense of place, and allow students to explore a range of locations and topics.
NEW! MapMaster 2.0 Interactive Map Activities. Inspired by GIS, these activities allow students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. Now fully mobile, with enhanced analysis tools, the ability for students to geolocate themselves in the data, and the ability for students to upload their own data for advanced map making, this tool includes zoom and annotation functionality, with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as the PRB, the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, the CIA, and more.
UPDATED! GeoTutor Activities help students master the most challenging geography concepts with highly visual, kinesthetic activities focused on critical thinking and the application of core geography concepts.
NEW! Mobile Field Trip videos for geography from Michael Collier give students another avenue for exploring US landscapes and the major themes of physical geoscience concepts.
Pre-Lecture Reading Quizzes ensure that students complete the assigned reading before class and stay on track with reading assignments. Reading Quizzes are 100% mobile ready and can be completed by students on mobile devices.
Encounter World Regional Geography Google Earth Activities provide rich, interactive Google Earth explorations of world regional geography concepts, helping students visualize and explore world regions. Available with multiple-choice and short answer questions. All Explorations include corresponding Google Earth KMZ media files, and questions include hints and specific wrong-answer feedback to help coach students toward mastery of the concepts.
Map Projections tutorial media help reinforce and remediate students on basic but challenging early map projection concepts.
Author Blogs link from the Review, Reflect, & Apply end-of-chapter sections and Mastering Geography Study Area, where each blog works to dynamically update the print book and eText with new data, case studies, and analyses by the authors as events unfold around the globe.
NEW! eText 2.0

Full eReader functionality includes page navigation, search, glossary, highlighting, note-taking, annotations, and more.
A responsive design allows the eText to reflow/resize to a device or screen. eText 2.0 works on supported smartphones, tablets, and laptop/desktop computers.
An in-context glossary offers students instant access to definitions by simply hovering over the key terms.
Seamlessly integrated videos and activities allow students to watch and practice key concepts within the eText learning experience.
Accessible (screen-reader ready).

Learning Catalytics^™ helps you generate class discussion, customize your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.

NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions
NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive
Help your students develop critical thinking skills
Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling
Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy
Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning
Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode

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